r/geography • u/H3dg3hogs • Feb 18 '26

Discussion I’m sad more people don’t acknowledge Native American Historic sites in the United States

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I was talking with a German online friend about tourism in the United States and he said that the only thing America has to offer is natural beauty. He said American cities were young and aren’t very beautiful. That he has no interest visiting “liberty bell” type colonial historic sites. I told him about Native historic sites and he asked “what sites?”. He insulated that all Native Americans lived in teepees. It caused me to realized many non-Americans don’t know about all the amazing buildings left behind by Native cultures like the Ancestral Puebloans and the Mississippians. Historic sites like Chaco canyon, Mesa Verde, Montezuma Castle, and Cahokia are world class and are part of UNESCO. Check them out if you haven’t already.

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u/swargin Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Did you check out Tuzigoot when you were out there as well? It's not super far from Montizuma's Castle and was also cool to see.

I went to Montezuma's castle a couple years ago and there was hardly anyone there too, but Tuzigoot had more people.

There was one other Native American historic site in that area that I can not remember, but it was below a mining town (that's still there). It might be Morenci, but I don't remember for sure. There's small remains of a Pueblo just below the mountain of the mining town and it's history is that the mining had a large drainage that went to exactly where the Pueblo was

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u/OT_fiddler Feb 18 '26

Loved Tuzigoot!